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  • Dont worry about the resoloution, its just fine. The music and staging is terriffic. Were so lucky to see this gem. Carol

  • Those people wanting a 'higher resolution' are you kidding?? it's not bloody digital, this recording is over 80 years old, you are lucky it is in colour! I think it is very advanced cinema for it's age..

  • @WannabeAnarchy

    The fact it is 80 years old, or even 180, has nothing to do with the resolution with with it's uploaded.And is in fact available at 480 (vs this is 240) also on the You Tube if you search for it. And since the original was in color, why are we lucky that the copy is too.

  • Gawd, I love the old Technicolor!... So beautiful...in its way... (sigh!)

  • NOW you can see why I easily get lost in viewing these fascinating glimpses of the past!? They are a treasure indeed.

  • Puhleese is there any higher resolution?

  • What would I give to live in such an elegant shoe, would kill for this movie!!!! Oooh and I'd like that prince to wave his wand over me, kind of a kinky costume

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  • The applause afterward seems rather weak for such a great effort! People back then were spoiled!

  • @tenorlord New York audiences were hard to please back then. It took a great deal to get a rise out of them.

  • I haven't been able to stop watching this! All of the computer-generated foolishness of modern Hollywood can never compete with this style of production. Imagine seeing this on the gigantic screen at someplace like the Century here in Baltimore!

  • This is a request. OK, it can be found elsewhere on YouTube but I think this one look better. Enjoy!

    Better still, and more to enjoy, if you could re-upload at higher rate than puny 240? Possibly for you to do that. Thanks.

  • Absolutely enchanting. I really do not believe Hollywood is capable of producing something as charming as this now. The magic just is not there any more, it was lost a long time ago.

  • I love really old colour footage. It's da bomb.

  • No stA'erzz? ...Infinite stars!

  • it a great life was a part technicolor production time warner is anti two strip they took woemn in the show and the other number and tryed to get rid of the green which dulled the color up to appeal to the popular classic fans they hate two color technicolor especially if there is no star in it but tcm owns this unpopualr classic so they can show it without any copy right fees at 3 am in the morning to 8 30 in the morning

  • Compare with "Ah's gonna smack muh bitch" (repeat six times) sung (if you can call it that) by male teenagers in torn undershirts, applauded by screaming female ones.

  • @35westst Have always liked this song. Wonderful to hear again.

  • The dance was staged by Sammy Lee, who had done the dances in "It's a Great Life" with the Duncan Sisters, another surviving early Technicolor film. The dancers are Albertina Rausch's as in the Blue daughter of Heaven number from this film.

    Wonderful nostalgic dance routine.

  • Great to see this again after a while - it seems better than ever ! Why do I get emotional when the dancers holding hands arrive at 3.30 - it gets me every time !  Anyone else feel it ?

  • @waldio22 Yes! I know exactly what you mean.

  • Ethelind Terry, Ziegfeld Original 1927 Rio Rita

  • This is terrific. Great, innovative dance steps. Great music, staging, change of background. You can tell I love it.

  • In 1930, we were offering the youngsters things like this great production number. Today, we give them the Teletubbies, those insipid blobs. Please don't even suggest to me that represents progress, no matter how many psychologists it took to turn the Teletubbie awfulness.

  • When I was a kid, this was one of my favorite songs. Thanks for posting it.

  • This is so wonderful!!!!!

  • thanks so much so wonderful , born too late thanks

  • The stagy, static camera set-ups, appearing so primitive in these early talkies, seem to work very well here somehow. The song is great, the color vibrant, and you can see the dancers full body and appreciate their technique. Its like a time capsule record of early musical theatre.

  • That's incredibly cute and much fun to watch! Lots of hard work and much imaginaion certainly is evident here - just wonderful film history. Thanks for posting!

  • A joy to watch.

  • This makes life worth living.....

  • I utterly agree with you : This makes life worth living.

  • one of the best coreogr..hear my spanish records VERTXXGG..merci

  • Dreadfull hilarious Choreography from the 'Blackbirds' but the Fairy Prince at the beginning was far prettier than everyone else ....Camp !!

  • Thank you! This was reused in MGM's 1933NERTSERY RHYMES with Ted Healy and the 3 Stooges.

  • Wonderful tune...it's a catchy as everyone says! The condition of this clip (esp the color) is beautiful! A pleasure to watch!

  • Wonderful. Have been looking for the clip for years since I caught it by accident on TV. Words can't begin to express my gratitude to stjn00.

  • A very juvenile comment !

  • Absolutely, life-enhancingly joyous. This must be up there in the top half dozen of the campest clips ever to grace You Tube! Bless you stjn00 .... Great Work!

  • Rediscovered in the late 1980s; a clip featured in That's Entertainment Part III

  • WONDERFUL waldio22 is right This clip is highly addictive I can watch it endlessly; must watch it at least once a day to insure happy thoughts ! wish I could understand all of the words .

  • Absolutely wonderful and a joy to watch - only I can't get the song out of my head !

  • I love this clip - it's a doorway into a wonderful, long lost past. Absolutely magical and charming.

  • Beyond fabulous. Simply Hollywood and Broadway at their finest.

  • This number was also incorporated into MGM's Nerstery Rhymes (1930), featuring Ted Healy and His Stooges.

  • Much better than mine,

    Thanks!

  • Lovelly!!! Only what does Amsterdam has to do with it??? What a nice 1930 colour video. Thanks

  • Amsterdam: AKA the New Amsterdam Theater in New York City.

  • Another one of those fantastic clips! Thanks a lot for posting!

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